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Cars

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Cars	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The first film for the Cars film series (2006) centers around Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson), an arrogant up-and-coming hotshot stock car racer whose only driving concern is winning. The film opens with McQueen vying for the Piston Cup, a coveted prize which assures the winner of a lucrative sponsorship. Despite a valiant effort, McQueen ends up in a three-way tie with retiring racing veteran Strip "The King" Weathers and perennial runner-up Chick Hicks. A tie-breaking race is scheduled a week later in California, and McQueen urges his driver Mack to get them there immediately.Along the way, McQueen gets lost, ending up in Radiator Springs, a quiet rural town in a forgotten segment of Route 66. After accidentally tearing up the town's main road, McQueen is sentenced to repairing it as community service. As he toils to finish his service and get to California, McQueen makes friends with the locals, including Tow Mater and former big-city hotshot Sally Carrera, and learns that there's a lot more to life than just racing to the finish line.note The film's story has often been compared to Doc Hollywood (both films are about a successful, cocky man from the big city who gets stuck in a small rural town and becomes a better person by coming to understand how small-town residents live).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Oh! Right! Almost forgot: All of the characters are various sentient vehicles.The movie was released on June 9, 2006, accompanied by the Pixar short One Man Band.Holds the distinction of being the last Disney film released on VHS, as part of an extremely rare release◊ from the Disney Movie Club. Said tape is perhaps one of the most highly sought-after in existence.Has three video game adaptions; the first, Cars: The Video Game, was released on June 6, 2006, roughly three days before the movie's release. The second, Cars: Mater-National Championship, was released on October 29, 2007. The third, Cars: Race-O-Rama, was released on October 12, 2009.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Cars ShortsPixar has also produced a number of Cars-related shorts, such as "Mater and the Ghostlight" (included with the Cars DVD release) and "Mater's Tall Tales" and "Tales from Radiator Springs" for the Carstoons series. More information about these can be found on the Pixar Shorts page.DisneyToon Studios also released a Spin-Off of the franchise, called Planes. Visit the page for more information.
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Cars / int_1045c71a	type	Dying Town
Cars / int_1045c71a	comment	Dying Town: Radiator Springs, until the ending.
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Cars / int_105f4bd9	type	Villain: Exit, Stage Left
Cars / int_105f4bd9	comment	Villain: Exit, Stage Left: After Chick is booed at for causing The King to crash on purpose, denying his victory, he runs offstage and isn't seen again.
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Cars / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Cars / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: During the montage of people reacting to Lightning's disappearance, there's a press conference held by the Governor of California: a Hummer with a thick Austrian accent. However, unlike Jay Leno, Arnold didn't voice himself in car form (Jess Harnell did), and his name isn't mentioned in the movie.
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Cars / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Cars / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: After the race in the film's beginning, Mia and Tia, two fans of Lightning come up and "flash" their "headlights" at him, much the way groupies lift up their shirts to flash people. The scene where Mack struggles to stay awake on the highway may seem familiar to any trucker or driver who has driven long distances in the dark on unlit country roads. The King's crash is supposed to be a recreation of the violent wreck Richard Petty took at the 1988 Daytona 500 (apart from the fact that Petty had a different car model, and that wreck involved an additional five cars). Chick being booed off the stage at victory lane was supposed to echo the backlash Rusty Wallace received when he spun out Darrell Waltrip to win the 1989 All-Star race at Charlotte. Radiator Springs is surrounded by rocky desert and flashes neon at night, just like Las Vegas.
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Cars / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Cars / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The King. Though he’s no jerk like Chick and he was one of Lightning's opponents, The King treats Lightning fairly and respectfully.
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Cars / int_151b7067	type	Repeated Cue, Tardy Response
Cars / int_151b7067	comment	Repeated Cue, Tardy Response: Lightning McQueen says, "Is it getting dark out?" at which point Lizzie was supposed to activate the neon lights, but she didn't hear him. Lightning tries again, but Lizzie actually forgot what she was supposed to do and Red decides to do her job for her.
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Cars / int_157822af	type	Shrine to Self
Cars / int_157822af	comment	Shrine to Self: The luxury container Lightning McQueen travels in is full of trophies and gadgets of himself.
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Cars / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Cars / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: During the first race when Lightning is far in the lead on the final lap:
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Cars / int_16365fa0	type	You Fool!
Cars / int_16365fa0	comment	You Fool!: "Not Chuck" shouts this after Lightning's tire blows out.
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Cars / int_16fef97b	type	Binomium ridiculus
Cars / int_16fef97b	comment	Binomium ridiculus: The VW Beetle insects are named Vroomaroundus Bugus.
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Cars / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Cars / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Doc Hudson, a former Piston Cup champion who becomes a mentor of sorts for Lightning.
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Cars / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Cars / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: No prizes for guessing who Michael Schumacher Ferrari and Jay Limo are voiced by... Tom and Ray have a cameo as well. And some obscure politician guy from California. (Though this being during his tenure as governor, he's actually voiced by Jess Harnell.) As does frequent NBC Sports host Bob Costas. And fellow announcer Darrell Waltrip. Dale Earnhardt Jr. appears as the #8 Chevrolet Monte Carlo he drove for his father's race team from 1999 to 2007 in the Winston / Nextel / Sprint / Monster Energy Cup Series (prior to his 2008 departure to Hendrick Motorsports), sans Budweiser stickers (to avoid advertising alcohol). Appropriately, his car name is... "Junior", which is pretty much how everyone in the NASCAR community refers to him.
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Cars / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Cars / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: A double case after the first race. Mia and Tia struggle to meet Lightning and turn on their headlights to him, and everyone acts shocked. They're flashing him with their headlights. The bumper sticker that Lizzie slaps on Van reads "Nice Butte".
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Cars / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
Cars / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: Harv, Lightning's agent. He's heard over the phones (there are two of them, it's a different phone the second time) in Lightning's trailer twice, first when he's on his way to California, and second when his location is revealed to the press by Doc.
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Cars / int_1c7987a	type	Newspaper Backstory
Cars / int_1c7987a	comment	Newspaper Backstory: McQueen discovers that Doc Hudson used to be famous racer the Hudson Hornet when he finds Doc's garage full of newspaper clippings, including one for the big crash that led to his retirement.
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Cars / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Cars / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: During the end credits, Mater lip synchs to the lyrics of "Route 66" directly to the audience. Then there's Lightning staring at the camera when Mater tries to remove his parking boot and the bug bumping into it at a post-credits scene.
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Cars / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Cars / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: That little blue flying insect shaped like a car is a Volkswagen Beetle. Sally, a lawyer, is a Porsche. "Portia" used to be a slang term for a female lawyer (after Portia, who disguised herself as a lawyer to defend Antonio in The Merchant of Venice). The twins Mia and Tia are Mazda Miatas. Compared to "Toy Car Story" and "Monster Trucks inc.", "A Bug’s Life" keeps the original name while referencing "Bug", as in "Volkswagen Beetle".
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Cars / int_2289f1be	type	Spit Shine
Cars / int_2289f1be	comment	Spit Shine: Mater offers to clean off a spot of tar on Lightning McQueen's hood, and he starts hocking before McQueen hastily declines.
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Cars / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Cars / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: While chasing Lightning near the beginning, Sheriff muses that he might bust a gasket at the speed he's going. When Lightning busts into Doc's office later in the film, Sheriff is in there, probably for said busted gasket.
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Cars / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Cars / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: During Lightning's Rust-Eze sponsor meeting, he mentions offhandedly that racecars don't have headlights since the track itself provides lighting. This ends up causing him problems when he gets accidentally pushed out into the highway and can't find his truck in the dark.
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Cars / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Cars / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "There's a lot more to racing than just winning."
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Cars / int_258a5cfe	type	Different World, Different Movies
Cars / int_258a5cfe	comment	Different World, Different Movies: The automotive versions of earlier Pixar movies appear in the end credits, including Monster Trucks, Inc., Toy Car Story, and A Bug's Life.
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Cars / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Cars / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When McQueen gets shoved up on stage, someone in the back yells "Freebird!" at him. During the end credits scenes at the drive-in, a crowd of tractors gets increasingly larger while watching the movies, until they're even joined by Frank.
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Cars / int_274cf442	type	Credits Montage
Cars / int_274cf442	comment	Credits Montage: After the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, the credits continue over a series of slow-motion stills throughout the movie.
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Cars / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Cars / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Lightning acts nice and determined when racing, but off-track, he's obnoxious and self-centered, causing his own team to quit on him and even pushes Mack through the night. Finally averts this in the finale, when he becomes a good-natured racer when and when not racing.
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Cars / int_27a40541	type	Furry Confusion
Cars / int_27a40541	comment	Furry Confusion: Bessie.
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Cars / int_27be0280	type	Porn Stache
Cars / int_27be0280	comment	Porn Stache: Chick Hicks' grill. The forklifts of his pit crew are just the same.
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Cars / int_29429eec	type	Community-Threatening Construction
Cars / int_29429eec	comment	Community-Threatening Construction: Radiator Springs was bypassed by Interstate 40, leading to its decline. Like many real towns, the opening of I-40 caused a decline in traffic on US 66 and turned it into a ghost town. Unlike most examples, though, the residents did nothing to stop it because they mistakenly thought more interstate travelers would mean more visitors.
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Cars / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
Cars / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: The movie starts with Lightning driving out of his dark trailer onto the racetrack.
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Cars / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Cars / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Much of the film's humor is derived from the misfortunes that fall upon Lightning during his stay at Radiator Springs.
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Cars / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Cars / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: Doc makes clear his vendetta with Lightning is because of how selfish and undependable he is and he doesn't want that influencing the others:
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Cars / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Cars / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Racecars use Lightyear tires on the track. Lightyear uses the same logo and font as Goodyear, the official tire provider for NASCAR. Dinoco functions as the movie equivalent to Sunoco, the official fuel provider of NASCARnote Dinoco also comes from Toy Story, it's the gas station where Woody and Buzz get lost in the first movie. The Motor Speedway of the South is clearly Bristol Motor Speedway, right down to the logos. However, unlike Bristol, the track is a bit larger than the real one and has room for a grassy infield. Los Angeles International Speedway is meant to be the Auto Club Speedway, but with the outer facade of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and interior architecture from the Rose Bowl.note Nearly 16 years later, the LA Coliseum would eventually become the location of a NASCAR race, the 2022 Clash held on February 6 of that year, prior to the running of the Daytona 500.
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Cars / int_2c7416bb	type	Acting Unnatural
Cars / int_2c7416bb	comment	Acting Unnatural: Lightning McQueen wants to surprise Sally with his new look.
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Cars / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Cars / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Lightning has one where he, The King, and Chick Hicks are racing on Motor Speedway of the South and are on the last lap until Frank appears out of nowhere and mows Chick while the King moves out of the way, and so does Lightning, but it costs him the win where Frank crosses the finish line first and wins Dinoco while Lightning gets licked by tractors and he wakes up screaming "No!".
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Cars / int_2e3ab929	type	Assumed Win
Cars / int_2e3ab929	comment	Assumed Win: After the race in the beginning, McQueen assumes he won the Piston Cup, and proceeds to make a big entrance... only to find out it was a tie.
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Cars / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Cars / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: Other characters would often use Lightning's catchphrase "Ka-chow!" certain times, especially when Chick steals it as his own, "Ka-Chicka!"
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Cars / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Cars / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Mater for McQueen and Sally.
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Cars / int_3494519b	type	Stock Desert Interstate
Cars / int_3494519b	comment	Stock Desert Interstate: Radiator Springs, the main setting of the movies, is a desert town along Route 66, surrounded by picturesque rock formations. It was once a thriving community servicing cars driving across the country, but by the events of the first movie, was a Dying Town due to Interstate 40 cutting off its main source of income. It becomes a hot tourist attraction after racer Lighting McQueen makes it his base of operations.
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Cars / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Cars / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Owen Wilson's minimal southern accent appears in some parts of the film (like the way he says "now", leaving out the "G" in "ing" words, and, most notably, the way he pronounces "interstate" as "enner-state") but fades in and out most of the time. Somewhat understandable since the majority of the Piston Cup tracks are in the Southeast.
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Cars / int_35fa738	type	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart
Cars / int_35fa738	comment	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart: In this world of living vehicles, farming machines take place of cattle - tractors act like cows, gently grazing on wheat fields and tipping over when someone honks at them, and Frank the combine harvester acts like an aggressive bull, attacking cars who enter his field. There are also tiny VW Beetles that take the place of insects.
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Cars / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Cars / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Lightning attempts to escape Radiator Springs after Mater removes the parking boot, only to immediately run out of gas after a few miles, because Sally and Sheriff siphoned his gas while he passed out overnight.
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Cars / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Cars / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Red, the huge fire truck who is very quiet and is seen taking care of his flowers most of the time.
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Cars / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Cars / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: If you look behind Lightning when he backs up and blows a kiss to the paparazzi just after the security takes Mia and Tia away, the top three positions on the scoring pylon are not lit yet. This foreshadows the news of the three-way tie minutes later.
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Cars / int_38aa15db	type	Directionless Driver
Cars / int_38aa15db	comment	Directionless Driver: Minny and Van, the lost tourists who wander through Radiator Springs. Van, the husband, sternly refuses to ask for directions; after the credits, they're still lost in the desert, exhausted and delirious. The sequel shows that they found their way out.
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Cars / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Cars / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Doc wins the dirt race against Lightning by taking advantage of the fact that McQueen has no experience racing on dirt, and no speed besides "as fast as possible". Doc doesn't even move off of the starting line when the race begins, knowing that Lightning is going to take one specific corner too fast and crash out, which is exactly what happens.
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Cars / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Cars / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: During the Credits Montage, Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is watching Cars-universe versions of Pixar movies (including Toy Car Story, Monster Trucks, Inc., and A Bug's Life), and initially praises the voice actor for Hamm Truck and the Abominable Snowplow (John Ratzenberger) ... but by the time A Bug's Life rolls around, he realizes they're just reusing the same voice actor and criticizes them for it. The King is Richard Petty voicing his 1970 Plymouth Superbird, even bearing the same font for the #43 as Richard Petty Motorsports has used ever since in the Cup Series. He has also won seven Piston Cup championships, the number of Winston Cup Championships that Petty won in his racing career. And his wreck at the end of the film is a nod back to Petty's wreck in the 1988 Daytona 500. Weathers' wife is voiced by Richard Petty's late wife Linda, and her vehicle is modeled off of the actual stationwagon the Petty family used to drive from race to race. Michael Schumacher Ferrari. Three guesses on who is the voice actor, but the last two won't count. NASCAR on FOX analyst Darrell Waltrip and NBC sports commentator Bob Costas lend their voices to Piston Cup announcers Darrell Cartrip and Bob Cutlass. Waltrip even gets to say "Boogity-boogity-boogity!", the phrase he says at the drop of the green flag of every NASCAR on Fox race. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Mario Andretti voice cars that they previously have driven: Earnhardt, Jr. as his #8 Chevrolet Monte Carlo from DEI, and Andretti as his 1967 Daytona 500 winning Ford Fairlane. McQueen's agent Harv is voiced in the American release by Jeremy Piven, best known for his role as Hollywood superagent Ari Gold on Entourage. In the foreign markets, he's voiced by Jeremy Clarkson, known for his part as the former host of Top Gear. Mater's "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there", and "Git-r-done!", both of which are Larry the Cable Guy's Catchphrases. It's so much that Mater's voice is actually credited as "Larry the Cable Guy", not "Daniel Whitney". A variant of this: Chick Hicks goes to victory lane after he intentionally crashes the King on the last lap of the final race, and is pelted with old tires and booed off stage. This is a nod to the reception given to Rusty Wallace after he spun out Darrell Waltrip on the last lap of the 1989 All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and sent Waltrip into the grass. As Wallace claimed the victory and the $200,000 prize, fans booed, gestured rudely and pelted the track with beer cans, while a dispute on pit road quickly escalated into a twenty-five person fistfight, to which Waltrip said, "I hope he chokes on the $200,000, that's all I can tell him. He knocked the hell out of me. I guess I made a big mistake by letting him get up there too close to me in the first place." Two of the people associated with that All-Star Race are in this film: Darrell Waltrip (as Darrell Cartrip), and the speedway's operator, Humpy Wheeler (who voices Tex, Dinoco's owner). Fillmore is basically George Carlin doing "Al Sleet, the Hippie-Dippie Weather Man" as a car. This wasn't the first film in which Owen Wilson portrayed a rookie who starts out snobbish at first, but softens up eventually.
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Cars / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Cars / int_3b113b7	comment	In the tiebreaker race, Lightning says, "I think The King should finish his last race." This is a sign that his Character Development is finally complete and that he doesn't care about just winning anymore.
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Cars / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Cars / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Lightning starts out as an egotistical rookie race car who clearly dislikes his job advertising Rust-eze medicated bumper ointment and having to be around rusty cars, and longs to be the new spokesman of the Dinoco gas station. He ends up lost in Radiator Springs and put on community service, and over the course of the movie, he learns to be more humble, becomes friends with Mater, a rusty tow truck, and turns down the Dinoco sponsorship when it is offered to him as a reward for helping Strip "The King" Weathers cross the finish line after a nasty accident.
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Cars / int_3df75321	type	Gas Siphoning
Cars / int_3df75321	comment	Gas Siphoning: Sally mentions that Lightning's gas tank was siphoned while he was passed out.
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Cars / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Cars / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious:
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Cars / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Cars / int_40c57041	comment	Doc to Lightning. He hates Lightning because he sees his old self in him, implying he himself was like that in his past. He manipulates him into doing a good job of repairing the road by challenging him to a race he knows Lightning won't win, and reveals Lightning's location to the media to get rid of him, thinking (and saying) it would be better for everyone else, but really doing it for himself. He's still friendly with the rest of the Radiator Springs populace and warms up to Lightning when he sees just how much Lightning meant to the others, even becoming his crew chief and guiding him through the final race.
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Cars / int_42c6e19e	type	SympathyBankruptBanker
Cars / int_42c6e19e	comment	Sympathy-Bankrupt Banker: Alluded to. Chick Hicks is sponsored by htB, Hostile Takeover Bank, which fits perfectly with his dirty driving methods.
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Cars / int_455794d	type	Bang, Bang, BANG
Cars / int_455794d	comment	Bang, Bang, BANG: When Sheriff chases Lightning, his rusty engine backfires, causing Lightning to panic, thinking Sheriff's shooting at him.
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Cars / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
Cars / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: In the end after giving up the Piston Cup to save The King, Lightning is offered the Dinoco sponsorship by Tex, which was his dream since the beginning. However, he turns down the offer, because the Rust-Eze team gave him his big break and knows there's a lot more to racing than just winning.
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Cars / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Cars / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Lightning, later on in the film. He starts off as selfish, conceited, and arrogant, but starts to warm up to the residents of Radiator Springs and becomes a nicer person in the end. Doc to Lightning. He hates Lightning because he sees his old self in him, implying he himself was like that in his past. He manipulates him into doing a good job of repairing the road by challenging him to a race he knows Lightning won't win, and reveals Lightning's location to the media to get rid of him, thinking (and saying) it would be better for everyone else, but really doing it for himself. He's still friendly with the rest of the Radiator Springs populace and warms up to Lightning when he sees just how much Lightning meant to the others, even becoming his crew chief and guiding him through the final race.
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Cars / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Cars / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Chick has this to say to Lightning after the first race:
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Cars / int_4a0f49cf	type	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You
Cars / int_4a0f49cf	comment	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: Lightning McQueen has finished the road and there is no sign of him, the others assuming that he just left without saying goodbye. Red starts crying, at which point McQueen appears and asks what's the matter with Red. Mater then explains to McQueen about McQueen leaving, and stands staring at him a long while before realizing whom he was addressing.
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Cars / int_4a5b561b	type	Hood Hornament
Cars / int_4a5b561b	comment	Hood Hornament: Tex, the owner of Dinoco, is a Cadillac limo with a horn hood ornament functioning as a mustache.
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Cars / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Cars / int_4af55b78	comment	The character was also listed in the cast credits as "Not Chuck".
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Cars / int_4b32995a	type	Friend-or-Idol Decision
Cars / int_4b32995a	comment	Friend-or-Idol Decision: Lightning McQueen gives up first place in the Piston Cup race to help The King cross the finish line after Chick Hicks causes him to wreck out. Hicks still wins the cup, but everyone knows that Lightning would have won, and Hicks' dishonorable tactics lose him any regard the win would have brought. In a mild Double Subversion and An Aesop, McQueen gains the adulation he had desired but discovers that he doesn't really need it anymore — the events of the movie have taught him that there are more important things than fame.
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Cars / int_4b4274e3	type	Second Place Is for Winners
Cars / int_4b4274e3	comment	Second Place Is for Winners: Even though Lightning didn't win the race, he is lauded for his heroic rescue of "The King" and Chick Hicks is booed off the stage for being a jerkass.
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Cars / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Cars / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In the tiebreaker race, Lightning says, "I think The King should finish his last race." This is a sign that his Character Development is finally complete and that he doesn't care about just winning anymore. In Doc's garage: Lightning fires back at Doc with one his own: After Lightning leaves for the race:
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Cars / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Cars / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Lightning stopping just inches before the finish line to let Chick win, before proceeding to help The King cross the line, showing his change of heart has fully taken effect.
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Cars / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Cars / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: You can see Mater mouthing along to John Mayer's "Route 66" over the end credits.
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Cars / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
Cars / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: By Sally as Lightning helps The King cross the finish line and is praised by everyone.
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Cars / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Cars / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film starts and ends with a race for the Piston Cup.
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Cars / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
Cars / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Taken literally with Lightning, as he actually is the car, and has mad skills. Doc Hudson turns out to be this as well.
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Cars / int_53694d39	type	Bishie Sparkle
Cars / int_53694d39	comment	Bishie Sparkle: Lightning does this every time he poses and says his catchphrase "Ka-chow", causing one of his lightning bolt stickers to glow. His paintwork also gives off a brief glow often when speeding by from a wide-enough distance. Chick also does this when he steals Lightning's "Ka-chow" bit in favor of one of his own.
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Cars / int_53b82b7a	type	Maniac Tongue
Cars / int_53b82b7a	comment	Maniac Tongue: Lightning jumps clear of the wreckage with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth. He also sticks his tongue out at the end of the first race which causes a three-way tie.
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Cars / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Cars / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Lightning initially states his dislike of rusty cars. He gets creeped out at being up close with them, and is trying to get out of his Rusteze Medicated Bumper Ointment sponsorship due to not wanting to be associated with them, even stating they're bad for his image. When he points this out to Mater, Mater asked him what's wrong with rusty, old cars. To avoid hurting his feelings, Lightning says that he meant other old cars, not like Mater. He overcomes this prejudice after developing a friendship with Mater and happily stays on with Rusteze at the end.
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Cars / int_59275ef7	type	Chromatic Arrangement
Cars / int_59275ef7	comment	Chromatic Arrangement: Subverted. When the three main racecars are introduced at the start, it starts with The King (Petty blue), then Chick (green), and finally Lightning (red).
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Cars / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Cars / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Ramone and Flo, who are Happily Married.
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Cars / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Cars / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Understanding that winning isn't the best part of racing and learning what's more important in life.
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Cars / int_5e965a73	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Cars / int_5e965a73	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The King is the nicest of the three leaders, being wise and openly caring to his team. Chick is mean and rotten, not liking to lose and threatening to cheat in any way. Lightning is in-between, due to starting out spoiled and narcissistic, but softens over the course of the movie.
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Cars / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
Cars / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: Mater is the only one who immediately befriends Lightning after he got lost in Radiator Springs.
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Cars / int_613ecc2d	type	Riding into the Sunset
Cars / int_613ecc2d	comment	Riding into the Sunset: The movie ends with Lightning and Sally racing each other back to Radiator Springs.
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Cars / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Cars / int_617f0563	comment	Lightning receives one in particular from Ramone to surprise Sally when he undergoes his Heel–Face Turn.
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Cars / int_623a4ab4	type	Instant Costume Change
Cars / int_623a4ab4	comment	Instant Costume Change: When found, Lightning is still in his fancy getup when enters his trailer prior to leaving, but once he gets to the race he's back to his racing getup.
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Cars / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Cars / int_627264e0	comment	When Lightning was about to be hooked up to Bessie for community service, Mater took off the clamp without hooking him up to Bessie first, not realizing that Lightning could simply zoom off once the clamp is removed, and he does. Doc gives him a Death Glare in the process. Mater lampshades this seconds later by saying he thinks he should have hooked Lightning up to Bessie first before removing the clamp. Made even funnier later when Lightning runs out of gas right in front of a waiting Sally and Sheriff, who knew full well what was going to happen because they had a role in it. We can't believe they cheated Lightning out on his gas.
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Cars / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Cars / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the close-ups of Lightning when he's stuck in the cactus after falling into such, car-shaped cacti can be seen on the cacti on either side of him.
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Cars / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Cars / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Sarge does this during the end credits montage when running a boot camp for pampered SUVs. The complaining SUV is a Hummer -- an off-road gas-guzzler known for being more commonly used for suburban driving.
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Cars / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Cars / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The Cozy Cone motel, which is based on a real motel modeled after Indian Teepees.
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Cars / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Cars / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: While they're heading for California, Lightning McQueen promises to Mack that he'll keep him awake all night long by talking to him so he can keep driving. Cuts to McQueen sleeping soundly in the trailer and Mack starting to doze off. When Mater invites Lightning to come with him later that night, he says, “You know who you’re talking to? This is Lightning McQueen, I can handle anything.” Cut to the two standing in a field later that night, and he proclaims, "Mater, I'm not doing this!"
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Cars / int_68edd0d1	type	Overdrive
Cars / int_68edd0d1	comment	Overdrive: A rare subversion of the "more speed always works" aspect of this trope appears in the beginning of Cars. McQueen gains a whole lap on Chick Hicks and The King by staying out on several pit stops — only to have both of his rear tires blow out in the final lap.
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Cars / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Cars / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Two way case. Doc after The Reveal makes perfectly clear his qualms with Lightning are his selfishness and insincerity and how toxic that could be to the people of Radiator Springs. Lightning, though beginning to acknowledge his flaws, blasts back how Doc can call anyone a fraud after he's spent years lying about who he is to the same people who trust him. Similar to Lightning before, Doc can't answer for himself and just sulks.
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Cars / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Cars / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "It's just an empty cup." - a lesson that Lightning learned from Doc.
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Cars / int_6cce8078	type	Recognition Failure
Cars / int_6cce8078	comment	Recognition Failure: Nobody in Radiator Springs knows who Lightning McQueen is. Luigi and Guido are racing fans, but they only follow the Ferraris in Europe and are unfamiliar with American racing. They also don't know that Doc Hudson was the Fabulous Hudson Hornet, another famous race car.
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Cars / int_6eaff95	type	Leno Device
Cars / int_6eaff95	comment	Leno Device: Early on, Jay Limo does a Tonight Show monologue about McQueen.
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Cars / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Cars / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Radiator Springs is restored thanks to Lightning setting up his racing headquarters there and, despite not winning the Piston Cup, he has a new team backing him up and his selfless actions during the final race have made him a beloved racer and catapulted him, and Radiator Springs, into fame.
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Cars / int_75678e1	type	Species Title
Cars / int_75678e1	comment	Species Title: The movie is about a world of living cars.
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Cars / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Cars / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Lightning's first attempt at turning right to go left results in two of these. He ends up crashing into another cactus patch after falling off a drop, then a tall cactus plant falls on top of him, resulting in a hilarious scream of pain.
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Cars / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Cars / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: The film basically happens because of Lightning's refusal to change his tires on the final pit stop. In addition, the reason he gets lost is because of DJ, Boost, Wingo and Snot Rod messing with Mack on the highway by luring him onto the side of the road which is dangerously bumpy, and it causes one of Lightning's bobbleheads to fall off a shelf and hit the switch which opens the trailer.
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Cars / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
Cars / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: Lizzie, who slaps bumper stickers on strangers and ogles McQueen.
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Cars / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Cars / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Doc Hudson to McQueen, which doubles as a Wham Line and initiates the latter's Jerkass Realization: Though Lightning does throw this back at him straight after, telling Doc that he's not any better than him: When Sally finds out it was Doc who called the press about where Lightning was to get him out of Radiator Springs, she confronts him with the same query.
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Cars / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Cars / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Doc gives one to Lightning after explaining his tragic backstory, which causes the latter to have a Jerkass Realization and finally discover what an awful brat he's become—which makes Lighting rebound the speech back to Doc, stating that Doc is also selfish for not opening about his past to his friends. Instead of countering, Doc angrily tells him to finish the road and leave town.
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Cars / int_7d89315b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_7d89315b
Cars / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Cars / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Sally and Lightning in the final scene. They're interrupted by Mater, and Lightning lampshades it: "Great timing, Mater!"
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Cars / int_7eb49b31	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_7eb49b31
Cars / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Cars / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Lightning; it's shown early on when he's talking to his agent and can't name a single friend to send race tickets to. He has also fired three crew chiefs in a row because he wants to work alone although it's shown he refuses to listen to their advice so they may have quit.
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Cars / int_7f8fd503	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_7f8fd503
Cars / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Cars / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Lizzie has hers in the courtroom scene.
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Cars / int_7febc23b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_7febc23b
Cars / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Cars / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: A movie about cars.
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Cars / int_8409a385	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_8409a385
Cars / int_85bd6357	type	Conveniently Empty Roads
Cars / int_85bd6357	comment	Conveniently Empty Roads: When the three hot rods use soothing music to put Mac to sleep, there are no other vehicles around. Possibly justified, since this happens at night.
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Cars / int_85bd6357	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_85bd6357
Cars / int_8a164766	type	Never Got to Say Goodbye
Cars / int_8a164766	comment	Never Got to Say Goodbye: Mater never gets a chance to say goodbye to Lightning — until later at the race, anyway.
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Cars / int_8a164766	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_8a164766
Cars / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Cars / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: In Lightning's daydream, he stars in an action film in which he fires a lot of missiles at an invasion of giant sparkplug robots.
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Cars / int_8b93a168	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_8b93a168
Cars / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Cars / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: In the opening race, Lightning refuses to change his tires so he can maintain his big lead. Predictably, this nearly costs him the race when two of his tires burst in the final lap. When Lightning was about to be hooked up to Bessie for community service, Mater took off the clamp without hooking him up to Bessie first, not realizing that Lightning could simply zoom off once the clamp is removed, and he does. Doc gives him a Death Glare in the process. Mater lampshades this seconds later by saying he thinks he should have hooked Lightning up to Bessie first before removing the clamp. Made even funnier later when Lightning runs out of gas right in front of a waiting Sally and Sheriff, who knew full well what was going to happen because they had a role in it. We can't believe they cheated Lightning out on his gas.
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Cars / int_8d0785d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_8d0785d5
Cars / int_8d604827	type	Cow Tipping
Cars / int_8d604827	comment	Cow Tipping: The Cars world's equivalent — tractor-tipping — is something Mater does for fun. He (and Lightning) startle the tractors into accelerating so fast they flip over backwards.
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Cars / int_8d604827	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_8d604827
Cars / int_8e360c83	type	Wind Turbine Power
Cars / int_8e360c83	comment	Wind Turbine Power: Mack passes by a pretty large field of wind turbines on his way to Los Angeles.
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Cars / int_8e360c83	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_8e360c83
Cars / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Cars / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Done figuratively. In the end, Chick Hicks wins the Piston Cup, but in doing so his Pride, Wrath, and Ambition have revealed him to be a poor sport to the rest of the world. His career dies a metaphoric — yet very karmic — death as a result.
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Cars / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Cars / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Chick Hicks in the final race rams The King off the road and causes a crippling crash that takes him out of the race. Although he wins the Piston Cup, the confetti cannons are redirected right at him and he's mercilessly booed offstage while the angry crowd throws things at him, and he's denied the Dinoco sponsorship. Also in the final race, when Lightning sees The King's crash, he gives up the Piston Cup (even if it means Chick will win), just so he can make sure The King can finish his final race and retire with dignity. The whole crowd cheers Lightning on for his sportsmanship and recognizes him as the true winner of the race, leading to the above example with Chick, and he is even offered the Dinoco sponsorship, which he has always wanted. He politely turns it down, but he keeps his promise to Mater by getting him a ride in the Dinoco helicopter.
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Cars / int_91262aaa	type	Racing the Train
Cars / int_91262aaa	comment	Racing the Train: Lightning McQueen does it while trying to catch up to what he thinks is Mack.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_91262aaa
Cars / int_928f1cff	type	Inspirational Insult
Cars / int_928f1cff	comment	Inspirational Insult: Doc tells Lightning after Lightning falls into the cactuses that his driving is as lousy as his ability to fix roads, giving Lightning more motivation to do a proper job in fixing the road he damaged. Lightning even says "I'll show him." Also McQueen calls Chick "Thunder" since thunder always comes after Lightning, much to Chick's annoyance. However, Chick later shows off with this new nickname after Lightning disappears in Radiator Springs, wooing his fans and stealing Lightning's.
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Cars / int_939a84fa	type	Embarrassing Tattoo
Cars / int_939a84fa	comment	Embarrassing Tattoo: Sally has one. It looks like a small tribal design on her trunk which would be the equivalent of a "tramp stamp" on a human woman.
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Cars / int_939a84fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_939a84fa
Cars / int_939de546	type	Copycat Mockery
Cars / int_939de546	comment	Copycat Mockery: When Chick says, "The first one to California gets Dinoco all to himself!", Lighting later repeats this line to himself in a mocking voice. When Doc says, "You drive like you fix roads!", Lightning once again repeats this to himself in a mocking voice.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_939de546
Cars / int_93c06e89	type	Champions on the Inside
Cars / int_93c06e89	comment	Champions on the Inside: Even though McQueen loses to help the King finish his race, he is still considered a winner in the audience's eyes. Doesn't help that the King was injured by the winner himself, costing him the Dinoco sponsorship.
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Cars / int_9421aa41	type	Flipping the Table
Cars / int_9421aa41	comment	Flipping the Table: One of Lightning's pit crew members flip a stack of tires over when Lightning's tire blows out.
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Cars / int_9457dc3f	type	Not Allowed to Grow Old
Cars / int_9457dc3f	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Old: The Radiator Springs gang have the same appearances 40 years in between when the town was a success and when it became a ghost town, and don't show any signs of aging at all (Though Mater goes from a baby blue back then to rusty brown in the present, but is still the same size). Taken further with Doc — he looks the same as he did back then when he was a racer, fifty years apart.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9457dc3f
Cars / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Cars / int_94680696	comment	Compared to "Toy Car Story" and "Monster Trucks inc.", "A Bug’s Life" keeps the original name while referencing "Bug", as in "Volkswagen Beetle".
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_94680696
Cars / int_9657fe0f	type	Transformation Sequence
Cars / int_9657fe0f	comment	Transformation Sequence: Lightning has a brief one when Ramone is giving him a new paint job to surprise Sally.
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Cars / int_9657fe0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9657fe0f
Cars / int_970ccfec	type	Big "YES!"
Cars / int_970ccfec	comment	Big "YES!": By Lightning as he makes a big entrance on the press stage assuming he won, just before the announcement that it’s a three-way tie.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_970ccfec
Cars / int_97df21d3	type	Tripod Terror
Cars / int_97df21d3	comment	Tripod Terror: Lightning's action dream sequence in the beginning. Gets a frightening reprise when he imagines trying to outrun Frank on the track.
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Cars / int_97df21d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_97df21d3
Cars / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Cars / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: In Lightning's bad daydream, he imagines Chick Hicks getting the Dinoco sponsorship and becoming known as the "Chick Magnet", literally.
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Cars / int_9858c391	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9858c391
Cars / int_98bb5d19	type	Mistaken from Behind
Cars / int_98bb5d19	comment	Mistaken from Behind: Lightning McQueen gets separated from his truck Mac and looks for him. He thinks he sees him getting off the interstate, but after he catches up to him, it turns out to be someone else.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_98bb5d19
Cars / int_98f19e68	type	Our Founder
Cars / int_98f19e68	comment	Our Founder: Stanley Steamer, founder of Radiator Springs. If you know your car history, the "Stanley Steamer" was the first steam-powered car in the world. Cars made by the Stanley Motor Carriage Company tended to be known as "Stanley Steamers."
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_98f19e68
Cars / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Cars / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Lightning often sticks his tongue out when thinking of something. He also fidgets a tire when nervous. When racing, he smiles normally, but grits his teeth with a furious face if he struggles. During his stay in Radiator Springs, Lightning has a tendency to show disgust toward the townsfolk at first. He either scowls or rolls his eyes at whatever they do for him, especially Mater and Doc. He drops it by the finale.
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Cars / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Cars / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Chick is this to Lightning, especially at the start of the film. Chick basically shows what Lightning could have become if he hadn't undergone Character Development.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9b54d536
Cars / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Cars / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Doc challenging Lightning to a race around Willy's Butte and giving him advice afterwards foreshadows Doc's racing past as The Hudson Hornet, which Lightning himself finds out the following day. After Mater's demonstration of driving backwards, Lightning sarcastically remarks that he may use it in his big race. He does, after Chick rams him and he ends up facing backwards. He simply reverses past him. He also uses it in the final lap, as he reverses out of the way of Chick trying to ram him again, and Chick hits the wall instead. At the race around Willy's Butte, Luigi tells Lightning that Guido's dream is to give a racecar a pit stop. At the final race in California, Guido fulfills that dream in the best way possible, changing all four of Lightning's tires, by himself, in about four seconds. This even makes the moustaches of Chick's pit crew drop off in amazement. There are a few unnoticeable hints at Lightning's Heel–Face Turn throughout the film: When Harv calls him while on the way to California, he is reminded if he has any friends he can give the extra tickets to but can't think of any; when Harv hangs up, he slumps forward in sadness. He is immediately lovestruck the moment Sally first appears, not through manipulation like he tried to do with Mater at the impound, but through true, genuine feelings. Sally says to Lightning that she and Sheriff "siphoned his gas" while he was in the impound, foreshadowing the film's aesop that it's nice to slow down and enjoy life, which he says word per word after their drive together. While trying to fix the road, Bessie spits some tar on his right lightning bolt sticker which he has for most of his stay. This symbolizes that his ego has become slightly "darkened". When Lightning flirtatiously teases Sally about her pinstriping tattoo on her back, he is serious and actually being nice to her. Just before his departure, he is shown shedding tears as he talks with Sally. When he first arrived he wanted to go immediately, but now he's so sad he doesn't want to leave his new friends.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9d12bbc1
Cars / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Cars / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: At the end of The Stinger with Minny and Van, one of the VW "bugs" flies into the camera lens, leaving a smudge from its hood.
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Cars / int_9dd2329c	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9dd2329c
Cars / int_9e67ec50	type	Flashback Cut
Cars / int_9e67ec50	comment	Flashback Cut: Lightning experiences one the moment he sees The King lying unconscious on the infield after crashing, causing him to remember what happened to Doc and inspires him to give up the Piston Cup in favor of helping him.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9e67ec50
Cars / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Cars / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Doc says this to Lightning twice, following him witnessing his real driving leading him to reveal his dark past, making Lightning realizing what he should truly be.
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Cars / int_9f62723d	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_9f62723d
Cars / int_a195310a	type	Red Is Heroic
Cars / int_a195310a	comment	Red Is Heroic: Lightning is red and is the main character, but due to being a Jerkass at the start of the film, it's played straighter after he becomes a better person.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_a195310a
Cars / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Cars / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Doc, after Sally calls him out for tipping off the press to take Lightning away from Radiator Springs and everyone turning their backs on him for his selfish actions. He decides to re-don his old racing paint job and go to California to be Lightning's crew chief. An earlier one done by Lightning when he finally realizes how awful he's acted over the course of the movie, with thanks to Doc giving him his Wham Line.
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Cars / int_a2f44405	type	IAmTheTrope
Cars / int_a2f44405	comment	I Am the Trope: Lightning's Catchphrase — "I am speed."
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Cars / int_a2f44405	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_a2f44405
Cars / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Cars / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Lightning says a few of these throughout the movie.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_a31b47ae
Cars / int_a3385649	type	In-Joke
Cars / int_a3385649	comment	In-Joke: When Lightning mistakes a trailer he's been following as Mack, said trailer declares he's a Peterbilt.
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Cars / int_a3385649	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_a3385649
Cars / int_a4e9a09e	type	Dude, Where's My Reward?
Cars / int_a4e9a09e	comment	Dude, Where's My Reward?: Subverted when Chick Hicks wins the race and the Piston Cup trophy without the crowd's favor; justified when the crowd voices their disapproval of Hicks' shoving Strip Weathers off the track by throwing his merchandise back at him due to his poor sportsmanship in contrast to Lightning McQueen, who helped push Weathers across the finish line in the final lap.
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Cars / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Cars / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: Lightning realizes his jerkassery in Doc's garage after Doc reveals his tragic backstory. Doc himself comes to a jerkass realization after the Sally calls him out for phoning the press to get Lightning out of town.
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Cars / int_a7c91a10	type	Meaningless Villain Victory
Cars / int_a7c91a10	comment	Meaningless Villain Victory: Chick Hicks' wins the last race through a combination of cheating and Lightning's heartwarming last-minute Honor Before Reason decision to help crippled The King finish the race. He is rewarded by being abandoned by his sponsor and jeered off the winner's podium complete with tomato-flinging.
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Cars / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
Cars / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: Doc Hudson if his opening speech is anything to go by.
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Cars / int_aa70b926	type	Classic Villain
Cars / int_aa70b926	comment	Classic Villain: Chick Hicks is the Envy and Pride version of this combined with Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy. In the beginning of Cars, he's simply a slightly darker copy of McQueen's own flaws. By the end of the movie, however, McQueen's Character Development makes them complete opposites, highlighting how much McQueen has matured. Hicks demonstrates what McQueen could have been if he hadn't ended up in Radiator Springs.
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Cars / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
Cars / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": Strip Weathers, AKA The King.
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Cars / int_aa8d0ef0	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_aa8d0ef0
Cars / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Cars / int_aca32000	comment	Though Lightning does throw this back at him straight after, telling Doc that he's not any better than him:
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Cars / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
Cars / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: Bessie has a tendency to spit tar on the car that is pulling her. Lightning eventually gets some on one of his lightning bolt stickers the moment he starts fixing the road, which remains there throughout the majority of his stay.
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Cars / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Cars / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Driving backwards, and turning one way to go another. Both are shown to Lightning when he is in Radiator Springs by Mater and Doc respectively. Both are put into play by Lightning in the final race to avoid crashing when Chick tries to wreck him. Luigi tells Lightning that Guido has dreamed of getting to do a real pitstop for a racecar early on. At the tiebreaker race, Guido gets his chance and speed-changes all four of Lightning's tires in five seconds.
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Cars / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Cars / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: McQueen when he gets lost on the road and is pursued by the Sheriff. McQueen and Mater when they realize their Tractor Tipping game worked a little too well. Everyone at the tiebreaker race when Chick rams the King, seriously injuring the latter.
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Cars / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Cars / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: While Lightning is waking up in the impound, we get a shot through his eyes as he is opening them while the blurry view resolves into Mater standing before him. A few more of these can be seen while Lightning is racing, with the front end of his hood being positioned into the bottom edge of the screen.
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Cars / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Cars / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: At the end of the film, Lightning decides to keep his current sponsor Rust-eze, and also decides to make his home in Radiator Springs, and opens his Racing Headquarters there which puts the town back on the map and restores it to its former beauty.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_add931af
Cars / int_aec88ae0	type	Driving into a Truck
Cars / int_aec88ae0	comment	Driving into a Truck: At the beginning of the film, this is where Lightning lives. Unsurprisingly, this is the way real NASCAR teams transport their cars.
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Cars / int_aec9eb4a	type	Fictional Province
Cars / int_aec9eb4a	comment	Fictional Province: Carburetor County, Arizona.
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Cars	hasFeature	Cars / int_aec9eb4a
Cars / int_aedf28fe	type	Falling-in-Love Montage
Cars / int_aedf28fe	comment	Falling-in-Love Montage: Lightning and Sally have one during their drive up to the Wheel Well.
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Cars / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Cars / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Thanks to the gratuitous amount of merchandising generated by the film, we even get a toy of the forklift...who is named "My Name is not Chuck" on the packaging! The character was also listed in the cast credits as "Not Chuck".
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Cars / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Cars / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: McQueen, as he has to get accustomed to the very small town of Radiator Springs.
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Cars / int_b151c937	type	The Mockbuster
Cars / int_b151c937	comment	The Mockbuster: "Little Cars", by the infamous Vídeo Brinquedo. A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure by Spark Plug Entertainment. "The Autobots" (no, not THOSE Autobots) by Chinese company Xiamen Lanhuoyan Film Animation Co.
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Cars / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
Cars / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: From the first movie: Tractor-tipping: startling a tractor into falling over so it points straight up into the air, causing it to backfire in a manner that sounds like flatulence.
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Cars / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Cars / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Even in Hillbilly Hell as Sally says.
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Cars / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Cars / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Lightning's first attempt at turning right to go left, which results in him going over the edge of a drop and into another cactus patch. And then to add insult to injury, a cactus, dislodged by the impact, falls on top of him.
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Cars / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Cars / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The end credits show Radiator Springs is restored and everyone is enjoying their new lives together.
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Cars / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Cars / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Lightning is red, which shows he's the hero, but his racing coat he wears for most of the film is a shocking red shade, representing his arrogance and vanity. When he gets a new paint job from Ramone to surprise Sally, he becomes a darker red with a sparkly coating, which shows his new attitude is literally "sparking". Then, at the end of the film, he combines this paint job with portions of his racing getup, showing his Heel–Face Turn is complete and finally knows what's more important in life than just winning.
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Cars / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Cars / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Despite the fact this world is full of anthropomorphic automobiles, a lot of them seem to closely resemble their voice actors. Lightning for instance has the same sky blue eyes and smooth smile as Owen Wilson, whilst Doc still looks like Paul Newman dead-on. Many prominent members of the racing community make cameos, voicing real cars that they've driven during their driving career: Strip "The King" Weathers is the #43 Plymouth Superbird that Richard Petty drove in 1970. Darrell Cartrip is essentially Darrell Waltrip voicing the 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that Waltrip drove to a runner up finish in the 1979 points standings. Dale Earnhardt Jr. voices the #8 Budweiser Chevrolet Monte Carlo that he drove for DEI from 1999 to 2007note Although DEI logos replace the Budweiser logos due to the fact that this is a G-rated movie. Mario Andretti appears as his 1967 Daytona 500-winning Ford Fairlane.
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Cars / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Cars / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Lightning says this after he learns Doc has sentenced him to community service and he has to mend the road before he can leave Radiator Springs.
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Cars / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Cars / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: One occurs during the moment that Mack parked Lightning's trailer at the Rust-eze tent to make his personal appearance, and he's not happy about it.
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Cars / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Cars / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Lightning McQueen has a red paint job to match his personality. Frank is also colored red to match his irritable personality of a bull.
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Cars / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Cars / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: McQueen starts off with this attitude but has changed ways by the end of the film. Doc too, when he contacts the press to tell them of McQueen's location and get him out of the town. Sally calls him out on it. Chick Hicks is evidently 10 times worse than Lightning is, even before the rookie ended up in Radiator Springs.
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Cars / int_bf58b6f5	type	Stock Audio Clip
Cars / int_bf58b6f5	comment	Stock Audio Clip: Some of Lightning's freak-outs are recycled throughout the movie note One explanation could be that since Owen Wilson had a minimal voice acting background and had a tight production schedule at the time; the Pixar sound team only had him do a take or two of him screaming for said freak outs so they could use them for later. His scream when he wakes up after getting lost is used again when he is about to crash into a Cozy Cone, a third time when the Stanley statue lands in front of him, and a fourth time when he sees Frank. His "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" when he is knocking over a row of cones is used later when he is going off course into the cactus during his race with Doc at Willy's Butte. His "Wow!" when he sees the Wheel Well is used again when he approaches Doc after witnessing his real driving.
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Cars / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Cars / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Lightning screams this during his humorous nightmare where Frank appears out of nowhere and wins the Piston Cup, and again when he wakes up from it.
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Cars / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Cars / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Radiator Springs is rejuvenated by Lightning and everyone is happy, and it looks like the icing on the cake is the customers that seem to be approaching. Except they aren't customers. They're the press, who've been alerted to Lightning's presence by Doc, and Lightning is promptly whisked away for the final race.
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Cars / int_c6eabb03	type	Gosh Dang It to Heck!
Cars / int_c6eabb03	comment	Goshdang It To Heck: Mater's "Holy shoot!"
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Cars / int_c7e7529c	type	Five Stages of Grief
Cars / int_c7e7529c	comment	Five Stages of Grief: Lightning hits all five beats throughout his stay in Radiator Springs: He immediately wanted to leave upon getting lost there (denial); repeatedly showed disdain to the residents at first and was upset at having to fix the road (anger); faces Doc in a race at Willy's Butte to see if he can leave (bargaining); feels bad for himself after learning about Doc's past and cries for the first time prior to his departure for California (depression); and gives up the Piston Cup and declines Dinoco, finally learning the true meaning of friendship in return (acceptance).
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Cars / int_c8bea31b	type	K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a Tree
Cars / int_c8bea31b	comment	Kissing In A Tree: Twice done by Mater when he teases about Lightning and Sally's suspected relationship; first when saying goodnight to Lightning after their Tractor Tipping game, and again near the end when he interrupts a romantic moment between the two at the Wheel Well.
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Cars / int_c8c6a43c	type	Fly-at-the-Camera Ending
Cars / int_c8c6a43c	comment	Fly-at-the-Camera Ending: The Dinoco helicopter flies past the screen before the end credits start.
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Cars / int_c946460a	type	Hummer Dinger
Cars / int_c946460a	comment	The complaining SUV is a Hummer -- an off-road gas-guzzler known for being more commonly used for suburban driving.
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Cars / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Cars / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: In the credits sketches we see Mack (played by John Ratzenberger) criticizing the fact that John Ratzenberger is always in Pixar movies.
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Cars / int_cbd5f5e3	type	Reveille
Cars / int_cbd5f5e3	comment	Reveille: Sarge wakes up every morning with Reveille. This prompts Fillmore to counter with the Jimi Hendrix rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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Cars / int_cbe6f71c	type	Slower Than a Snail
Cars / int_cbe6f71c	comment	Slower Than a Snail: Lightning complains that his driver, Mack, is driving him to California way too slowly, and a minivan (which should, for all intents and purposes, be slower than a mack truck) drives past Mack.
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Cars / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Cars / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: McQueen is this to Chick Hicks, who thought that this was finally his year to win the Piston Cup and finally get out of The King's shadow with Weathers' upcoming retirement. The rookie racer Lightning McQueen's meteoric rise to fame came completely out of nowhere and Hicks found himself overshadowed once more.
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Cars / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Cars / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The Rust-Eze rhyme.
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Cars / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Cars / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: No one believes McQueen at first about Doc being a former race car star.
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Cars / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Cars / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Cars.
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Cars / int_d2c4c6f5	type	Hey, That's My Line!
Cars / int_d2c4c6f5	comment	Hey, That's My Line!: Lightning says it when he sees Chick steal his catchphrase on TV.
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Cars / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Cars / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Sally quietly tears into Doc after finding out he was the one who called the press and told them where Lightning was.
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Cars / int_d3fd222f	type	Smoking Barrel Blowout
Cars / int_d3fd222f	comment	Smoking Barrel Blowout: Guido does this after he changes all of Lightning's tires in seconds.
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Cars / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Cars / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Played straight when Lightning’s pit crew quits on him and takes off after he shows his “one-man show” attitude once too often; subverted when Lightning tries to escape from Radiator Springs only to run out of gas in the middle of nowhere and have Sheriff take him back. Also defied by the Radiator Springs gang from the moment Lightning is impounded to the moment he leaves town (but not really) after finishing his community service.
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Cars / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Cars / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: During the end credits, Mack watches several car versions of previous Pixar films at a drive-in theater, specifically Toy Car Story, Monster Trucks, Inc., and A Bug's Life. There is a tire brand called Lightyear, as well as an oil company called Dinoco.
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Cars / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Cars / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Lightning says at the beginning, "One winner, 42 losers," implying there are 43 racers competing (as if this were a Cup Series race pre-2016). During the race, only 36 racers are shown, the size of an Xfinity Series field. Unless we're to assume that some cars had already been taken out in an earlier crash.
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Cars / int_daac7225	type	Loser Buys Lunch
Cars / int_daac7225	comment	Loser Buys Lunch: Sally challenges Lightning to a race from the Wheel Well Motel to Flo's, where the loser has to pay for their food.
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Cars / int_daf30776	type	Playboy Parody
Cars / int_daf30776	comment	Playboy Parody: When the press is covering Lightning McQueen's arrival at the Los Angeles International Speedway, one of the questions asked is "Is it true he's going to pose for Cargirl?"
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Cars / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Cars / int_dbb414ed	comment	The fact that in this universe the cars are the athletes is a fairly decent Tire Wave for why the rules wouldn't be exactly the same, but whether the rules make more or less sense because of such a setting is best not thought about too hard.
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Cars / int_dc259572	type	Insulted Awake
Cars / int_dc259572	comment	Insulted Awake: Making any loud sound before a sleeping tractor causes them to wake up and jolt forward before tipping over.
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Cars / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Cars / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Sally calls Lightning "Stickers".
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Cars / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Cars / int_dd082289	comment	A Million is a Statistic: In the teaser trailer, Mater mourns over the death of a bumble bee after it was squashed on his windshield. Lightning then tells him to get over it. At which point, an entire swarm of bumble bees splatters all over the former's face. Mater laughs it off as Lightning tries to cough out the insects.
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Cars / int_dd95a27b	type	I Never Told You My Name
Cars / int_dd95a27b	comment	I Never Told You My Name: Fred. Everyone knows who he is because his license plate holder and license plate say "Hello, my name is" and "FRED", respectively. As a result, when McQueen says his name, he shouts, "He knows my name! He knows my name!" and gets so excited that his front bumper (which happens to be his lower jaw) falls off.
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Cars / int_de04e30c	type	Tears of Remorse
Cars / int_de04e30c	comment	Tears of Remorse: Lightning and Sally shed these after she wishes him good luck, shortly before his departure. Notably the very first time Lightning actually broke down.
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Cars / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
Cars / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: During Lightning's first dream sequence, the car that gets dissolved gets a Wilhelm scream out.
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Cars / int_de70f5a4	type	Continuity Cameo
Cars / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: The birds from Pixar short For the Birds can be seen very briefly on their power line as cars zip by.
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Cars / int_df1cb219	type	Unsportsmanlike Gloating
Cars / int_df1cb219	comment	Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Chick again.
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Cars / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Cars / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Mater.
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Cars / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
Cars / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License – Sports: The racing here is most loosely based on NASCAR, and artistic license abounds. The plot is kicked off by a three-way tie which results in a tiebreaker race scheduled for a week later. Prior to the introduction of the playoff format in 2014, if two drivers tied for the points lead at the final race, such a tiebreaker would be broken by number of total race wins then total number of top-5 and top-10 finishes.Example In 2011, Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart tied for the Sprint points lead at the Homestead-Miami season finale. While they had the same number of points, the championship went to Stewart because he had won five races, while Edwards only had one. This also happened for the runners-up in the final points for 2005, where Edwards and Greg Biffle tied for second, with Biffle being ranked higher due to more wins Most notable is the fact that rather severe wrecks happen and the races just keep going, when a real organization would immediately throw a caution flag, if not a red flag.note Though NASCAR has been noted to exercise lots of discretion with caution flags, so it isn't uncommon to see crashes happen on the last lap where no caution was thrown. Or single car spins where a caution isn't thrown if the car is able to refire and drive back to pit road. NASCAR's contact rules are practically non-existent in the Piston Cup; bear in mind that circuit racers are zipping around those ovals in excess speeds of 100-200mph, and the tiniest bump can put the drivers at lethal risk. Even accidental contact is looked down upon, with the very least resulting in the bumped driver being pissed at you, and at the worst you can get penalized, especially if you are found at fault for a pileup. Not to mention that any driver that deliberately rams other cars and purposefully triggers a crash the way Chick did would be parked (see Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch as demonstrations). The field is shown being filled with stock cars from various different eras, right down to the three main racers who get focus: The King is Richard Petty's 1970 Plymouth Superbird, Chick Hicks is a 1979 Pontiac Ventura, and Lightning is a cross of cars from several different types of auto racing.note The only exception in real life is the ARCA Menards Series (both the national series and the East and West regional series). Even then, it's not as extreme as Cars, as they can only use either the older Generation 4 bodies (mostly from the last five years of their usage) or the current, Generation 6-styled (specifically the 2013–14 Gen 6 cars) composite bodies made by Five Star Race Car Bodies; and said Gen 4 bodies are mostly used by underfunded teams or teams that did not run the full season since all cars are required to be equal. Interestingly, Lightning McQueen is both an exception and the embodiment of this — being one of the few (if not only) characters not modeled after a real car. His base design is from a NASCAR Gen-4 stock car, with features of the more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racers, and a bit of Lola and Ford (GT40) influence. However, considering these cars are from 3–4 different distinct types of racing, such a car would never be suitable for any of these leagues.note His front profile is way too wide to be useful as a stock car, which is more or less straight-line racing on wide, flat tracks and inclined turns meaning you want as small a profile as possible to for the best aerodynamics; not to mention it would make any attempt to draft useless since he would be wider than almost every other racer on the track, negating any advantage the low pressure zone bought him. At the same time, his chassis is too much like a stock car to be useful on a Le Mans circuit, with a back spoiler too small and a mass too big to allow him to keep traction on sharp turns; Interestingly, in Cars 2 this somewhat is played more realistically, where Lightning is unable to keep up with the more specialized F1 and Le Mans racers on the circuit, but is able to excel on dirt track portions thanks to his teachings from Doc and the fact that aerodynamics play less of a role at lower speeds. The fact that in this universe the cars are the athletes is a fairly decent Tire Wave for why the rules wouldn't be exactly the same, but whether the rules make more or less sense because of such a setting is best not thought about too hard. After Doc Hudson recovered from a season ending injury, when he went back expecting he could race again, the sponsors told him he was history. As CinemaSins pointed out in their sins video, it's incredibly unlikely that an athlete in his prime would be completely ignored because of a season ending injury and that most would at least participate in their sport in one way or another. Especially when you consider just how many retired NASCAR drivers remain very much active in the sport in a supporting capacity, whether that be as a team owner (Dale Earnhardt, Sr. and Jr., Richard Petty, and Richard Childress come to mind), or broadcasters (Darrell Waltrip, Dale Jr., Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Petty, Regan Smith, Clint Bowyer, etc.), or, hell, Lightning's decision to become Cruz's racing coach at the end of Cars 3. Lightning McQueen is being identified as the first rookie to ever win the Piston Cup, however, when Doc Hudson's trophies were discovered they are engraved "1951, 1952, 1953". Doc's license plate identifies him as a 1951. That would have made him a rookie when he won his 1951 Piston Cup. However, since most car models are released about six months before their model year (examples are the Chevrolet Lumina and the current Ford Fusion and Toyota Camry models), it is plausible that Doc was a rookie in 1950 with enough starts to not be classified as one in 1951.note In NASCAR, rookies must attempt seven or fewer events in the season of their first attempt for them to retain rookie classification the next season. Since 2011, you also have to declare eligibility for points in the series you raced in to be able to run for Rookie of the Year. If you're ineligible for points as a rookie, you're still eligible for rookie classification when you finally decide to declare eligibility for points as long as you don't run too many races beforehand (the limit is around 50–60 races, as Trevor Bayne experienced in 2015 when he was declared ineligible for rookie classification in the Sprint Cup Series having run a total of 52 races in the previous five seasons with Wood Brothers Racing, including his win at the 2011 Daytona 500. On the last lap during the first race, one of Lightning's tires blows; in NASCAR, if there's an accident on the last lap where other cars and/or safety personnel might be at risk, the race is declared immediately over. Therefore, Lightning would've won the race anyway since he was in the lead, though it would've probably been met with controversy akin to Greg Biffle's win at the 2007 Lifelock 400 in Kansas. Also during the final lap of the tiebreaker race, Chick purposefully makes The King crash in the infield. Since Lightning was way ahead of them, if the caution had been thrown right away, Lightning technically won the Piston Cup anyway since the video evidence would show he was in the lead even before willingly letting Chick cross the finish line. The field would be frozen at the instant of caution, but his efforts to get The King back to the finish line would be unchanged, and in fact would still have as much weight as in the actual film since it would be viewed as rather gentlemanly sportsmanship.
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Cars / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Of a sort — most of the characters are a fusion of the vehicle itself and the type of person who would be likely to drive that vehicle.
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Cars / int_e4f05faa	comment	Jaw Drop: The Rust-eze fan Fred promptly has his jaw literally drop to the ground when he is surprised when Lightning knows his name. The members of Chick's crew have their mustache grills fall off after Guido pulls off an amazing rapid-fire pit stop.
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Cars / int_e52a0409	comment	Doc too, when he contacts the press to tell them of McQueen's location and get him out of the town. Sally calls him out on it.
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Cars / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: As Doc Hudson drives into the courtroom and takes the podium, the camera is focused on his tires.
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Cars / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: While Mater is trying to get Lightning’s parking boot off, Lightning glares at the camera for a brief moment.
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Cars / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Lightning McQueen starts out as a jerk to everyone else, but becomes a better person by the end of the movie. Chick Hicks embodies this trope, not only being cruel towards McQueen, but also causing pileups in races.
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Cars / int_ec16212b	comment	From New York to Nowhere: Non-protagonist example. Sally Carrera recounts her story to Lightning McQueen that she used to be a fast-track lawyer in Los Angeles but grew disillusioned with the phoniness and the guile. She left California and kept driving through the desert until she broke down in Radiator Springs, where the townsfolk took her in and showed her kindness. She fell in love with the town and became its sole public defender, and has been content with that ever since. Sally recounts this as part of her stop-and-smell-the-roses Aesop.
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Cars / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: Minny to Van in The Stinger: "Oh, for the love of Chrysler...can we PLEASE ask someone for directions?!"
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Cars / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Lightning has to leave Radiator Springs for the tiebreaker race, but not before saying goodbye to Sally.
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Cars / int_f2a5f7f2	comment	Expospeak Gag: Occurs when Lightning talks to Mater after being forced to fix the road:
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Cars / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: Due to humans being completely nonexistent in the Cars world, the Monsters, Inc. scene where Mike and Sulley get banished to the Himalayas is changed so instead of Mike being angry about them being banished to the human world, it's about him being angry that they're stuck in the snow... without snow chains.
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Cars / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Lightning goes through a lot over the course of the movie to discover what's more important in life. By the end after giving up the Piston Cup to help The King finish the race, he politely turns down the Dinoco sponsorship, moves to Radiator Springs and sets up his racing headquarters there, which puts it back on the map.
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Cars / int_f792bee7	comment	Hot Paint Job: Ramone sports loads of these in each scene he appears in. Lightning receives one in particular from Ramone to surprise Sally when he undergoes his Heel–Face Turn.
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Cars / int_f7f8c062	comment	Intimate Marks: Parodied. Although vehicles obviously don't have naughty bits, Sally has a "pinstriping tattoo" over her bumper, and she's very embarrassed when Lightning notices.
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Cars / int_f935efbf	comment	Unnecessary Roughness: Done repeatedly in Cars by Chick Hicks, who won't hesitate to slam other racers and cause a Big One to happen just to stop McQueen. He even does the PIT maneuver to turn drivers backwards — a move that NASCAR and other organizations deem illegal. We are left to wonder why the NASCAR-expy organization has never parked Hicks for his tactics, even after causing a near-fatal crash for the retiring champion and winning the coveted Piston Cup championship. For comparison Kyle Busch was parked by NASCAR for the rest of the week when he wrecked Ron Hornaday Jr. at Texas under caution in a Truck Series race in November 2011.For another comparison Matt Kenseth was banned to compete for two races by NASCAR after intentionally wrecking Joey Logano at the 2015 Martinsville Chase race as a revenge for spinning him out and practically eliminating him from the Chase a few races earlier in Kansas.
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Cars / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
Cars / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Doc was a famous racer like Lightning, but he was forced to retire for good upon being replaced by a rookie following his crash.
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